P E O P L E

Anthony G. Hirschel,
the new director of the Michael
C. Carlos Museum, comes to Emory from the Bayley Art Museum at the
University of Virginia, where he served as director for six years.

At the Bayley Museum, Hirschel undertook an ambitious exhibition schedule
highlighted by presentations of Old Masters prints, drawings by Thomas
Jefferson, and Tibetan and Nepalese art. He also expanded programming,
including lecture series, theatrical activities, and concerts. Simultaneously,
he worked with the University of Virginia's art department to create additional
graduate fellowships and to establish a gallery devoted to curriculum-driven
exhibitions drawn from the Bayley's permanent collection.

Emory Provost
Billy Frye acknowledged the range of Hirschel's accomplishments, calling
him "a man who understands the dual nature of the museum as both an
arm of the academic community and a public museum."

The Carlos Museum, says Hirschel, is "one of the finest and most
active university museums in the country, a prominence it achieved in a
remarkably short period of time. The museum operates at the very highest
levels of the international art world and at the same time makes a significant
contribution to the cultural life of Emory and Atlanta."

Prior to working at the Bayley Museum, Hirschel was affiliated with
the Yale University Art Gallery and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology at
the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

In
a campus ceremony attended by a Nobel Laureate and a Pulitzer Prize winner,
the National Black Arts Festival (NBAF) announced its selection of composer,
musician, and Emory Professor of Music Dwight Andrews
as artistic director of its 1998 event.

Founded in 1987 by the Fulton County Arts Council, the NBAF biennially
presents the work of artists of African descent in eight disciplines: dance,
film, folk art, literature, music, performance art, theater, and visual
art. Some fifteen hundred artists from the United States, Africa, the Caribbean,
Europe, and South America participate in the Atlanta-based event, which
drew more than 1.1 million visitors in 1996.

Andrews has achieved national prominence for his music scholarship in
the areas of jazz history, popular culture, and music and race, and for
his contributions to contemporary music as a composer and performer. For
more than a decade he has provided music direction for the plays of Pulitzer
Prize-winner August Wilson (who spoke at the NBAF announcement, as did
Wole Soyinka, the Robert W. Woodruff Professor
of the Arts and winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature). Andrews
served as the first Quincy Jones Professor of African American Music at
Harvard University this spring.

In Memoriam

A pioneering voice for women and minorities at
Emory, Lore Metzger died January 31, 1997.
She was seventy-one. Metzger, who began teaching English and comparative
literature at Emory in 1968, was the University's first female full professor.
She founded the Emory University Women's Caucus in 1984. She was instrumental
in developing the plan that became the University's
Women's Studies Program, now a doctorate-granting discipline. She also
chaired the University Senate and the University Research Committee and
served as president of the Emory chapter of the American Association of
University Professors. In the larger academic world, Metzger was secretary
general of the International Comparative Literature Association and an
officer in the Modern Language Association and the Comparative Literature
Association.

Charles Howard Candler Professor of AnthropologyRobert Paul's book, Moses and Civilization:
The Meaning Behind Freud's Myth, has received the National Jewish Book
Award in the category of "Jewish Thought."